[mythtv-users] Slow video, Max CPU, bad sound

[stan]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:05:32PM -0600, myth at ahpee.org wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 10:35:03AM -0600, David Peach wrote:
> > I am a week and a half into this installation and I still do not have it
> > working. Would I be better off by dumping it all and starting over? Maybe
> > with compiling everything myself instead of using the RPMs? That sounds
> > very drastic to me and I really don't want to have to do that.
> 
> I've been at it for about 6 weeks now and still no acceptably working
> system for me either. I have a very similar hardware setup to you
>   Athlon 1.4
>   512 Mb RAM
>   PixelView bt878 Capture Card
>   Sound Blaster 128
> 
> I 've been getting the static problem recently too. I haven' t been able to
> attribute it to any in particular yet but sound seems a bit screwed in general
> for me. I'm also getting solid hardware lockups after a random period of time
> that are frustrating the debug process. I'v probably got some flaky hardware
> in the system somewhere. 
> 

Well, you could check the memory with memtest86, and you can get an
excelent peice of software to test ATA didk from the Hitacha Global Storage
web site.

That would be a good place to start on checking the hardware.

I've got an Athalon 800 working, so you have enough CPU.

Have you tried teh KoppMYTH CD?

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